If you teach on Continuing Professional Development or Teacher Education programmes or coach and support colleagues to improve their teaching and learning, these resources are for you.
11.965 Reflective Practice: An Approach for Expanding Your Learning Frontiers (from MIT OpenCourseware) Technical Requirements. Special software is required to use some of the files in this course
Osterman, K.F. and Kottkamp, R.B. (1993)Reflective Practice for Educators - Improving Schooling Through Professional Development. California: Corwin Press - 20 page extract - download
London Pharmacy Education & Training (2005) Reflective Practice Handout – version 2 Reflective Practice -download
Introduction to Reflective Practice - a handout from the 'old' Gold Dust Resources - download
A few videos on the web showing how FreeMind can be used A webslinks page with many links / resources for mindmapping and other tools / visualisations at:http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/mindmaps/
An online tool for creating ideas maps; charts; flowcharts - free and has a lot of features.
The site describes itself as below: Think Visually. Work Collaboratively. Online. Anytime
Listings of items on this website
This list of items to download as pdf as MS word fileThis listing is in the order items feature on the website
Home page
Welcome to the Reflective Practice online resource
Website sections:
Who has created the site?
The resources have been gathered together by a team of teacher educators co-ordinated by the Lifelong Learning Initial Teacher Training (LL ITT) team of Bath Spa University. The partners in the project are National Star College, Avon and Somerset Constabulary Learning and Development Department and Exeter Council for Voluntary Service. Funding for the project has come through the SW Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (CETT).
Who is the website for?
If you teach on Continuing Professional Development or Teacher Education programmes or coach and support colleagues to improve their teaching and learning, these resources are for you.What can the resource help you do?
Using the Website
What is available?
Contextualising
Two further documentsUses of types of content
Definitions
Pages in this section: | Definitions 1 | Definitions 2 | Definitions 3 | Definitions 4 |
Definitions, models and theories 1
Reflection and learning
What is reflection?
Ideas about reflection from a variety of writers:
Learning Activities
Further Resources / Activities on this topic
Definitions, models, theories 2
Why Reflect?
Learning Activities
Feedback from practitioners
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD Cycle from IfL
Learning Activity
Further Resources / Activities on this topic
Definitions, models, theories 3
What is Reflective Practice?Definitions of Reflective Practice
Learning activity
Complete online courses / modules in Reflective Practice
Further Resources / Activities on this topic
Definitions, models, theories 4
What are the benefits of reflective practice?Learning Activities
Further Resources / Activities on this topic
What are the challenges associated with reflective practice?
Learning Activities
Further Resources / Activities on this topic
Reflecting on ...
Pages in this section: | Starting | Moving on | Tools | Videos 1 | Videos 2 | Videos 3 | Videos 4 | Videos 5 |
Introduction
Starting Points
Learning Activities
Reflective writing - more activities in 'tools'
Reflective speaking - more activities in 'tools'
Visualising - more activities in 'tools'
Recording reflection - more activities in 'tools'
Further Resources / Activities on these topics
Moving on
Levels of reflectionLearning activity
Other relevant content on this topic
Levels of Reflection at the Professional Development for Academics in Teaching (ProDAIT) http://www.prodait.org/teaching/critical_teaching/levels.php
Peter Pappas on a taxonomy of reflection at this link
Four levels of reflection at the e-portfolios for Northern Ireland Website at: http://tepni.com/resources/reflective-practice.html
Videos from National Star College
Teaching sessions
Teaching observations
Tutorials
Interviews
Tools for Reflection - online and other tools to help reflection
Learning activities
(Listed A - Z)
Fotobabble
Mind Mapping
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/apr/18/schools.uk
http://www.novamind.com/gallery/index.php?category_id=2
Twitter
Highlights include:
Webspiration
The site describes itself as below: Think Visually. Work Collaboratively. Online. Anytime
http://www.mywebspiration.com/view/415066a6b33
Videos 1, Videos 2, Videos 3, Videos 4, Videos 5
Videos 1
Reading and weblinks
CPD Programme
List of items on site